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Jane Hedberg P r e s e r v a t i o n  N e w s  

NARA annual conference 
The National Archives and Records Adminis­
tration (NARA) will hold its 2008 preservation 
conference March 10 at the National Archives 
Building in Washington, D.C. The program, 
titled “The ABC’s of Modern Fire Suppres­
sion in Cultural Institutions,” will cover the 
past, present, and future of suppression 
systems. Through lectures and case stud­
ies, participants will learn about systems for 
new buildings, retrofitting systems into older 
buildings, and selecting systems appropriate 
for the objects they are to protect. They will 
also learn how to protect specialized use 
spaces, such as vaults, high bay storage, and 
data repositories; how shrinking budgets can 
be stretched to safeguard ever larger collec­
tions; and how suppression systems affect the 
environment and global warming. 

The registration fee is not determined as 
of this writing. For more information, contact 
Richard Schneider at NARA, phone: (301) 
837­3617; e­mail: richard.schneider@nara. 
gov; URL: www.archives.gov/preservation 
/conferences/2008/. 

Digital assets 
The Northeast Document Conservation Cen­
ter (NEDCC), in conjunction with PALINET, 
SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, and OCLC 
Western Service Center, will offer the two­day 
workshop “Stewardship of Digital Assets: 
Sustaining Digital Collections” four times dur­
ing the next year. The fi rst workshop will be 
November 14–15, 2007; in Philadelphia, the 
second February 6–7, 2008, in Morrow, Geor­
gia; the third May 14–15, 2008, in Dallas; and 
the fourth September 18­19, 2008, in Tacoma, 
Washington. This workshop will cover both 
assessing digital preservation needs and de­
veloping plans and policies to sustain digital 
collections. The faculty includes Liz Bishoff 

Jane Hedberg is preservation program offi  cer at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; 
fax: (617) 496-8344 

from the University of Colorado­Boulder, Tom 
Clareson from PALINET, Robin Dale from 
the University of California­Santa Cruz, and 
Katherine Skinner from Emory University. 
Each workshop will be limited to thirty­fi ve 
participants. 

Registration is $275 for members of 
the sponsoring organizations and $325 for 
nonmembers. For more information, go to 
www.nedcc.org/education/workshops/soda 
/sodadesc.php. 

Video preservation 
Tim Vitale and Paul Messier, with assistance 
from the National Center for Preservation 
Technology and Training, the Bay Area Video 
Coalition and Walter Henry of Stanford Uni­
versity, have created the VideoPreservation 
Website. The purpose of the site is to encour­
age use of digital capture and mass storage 
media, such as hard drives or data tape, for 
the migration of analog video. It contains de­
tailed illustrated information about the digital 
capture process, including setup of hardware 
and software, connections, signal, formats, 
storage, capture quality, and suppliers. It 
also contains information about traditional 
methods for analog to analog migration, vid­
eotape identification tools, video equipment 
museums, and useful publications. 

The URL is videopreservation.stanford. 
edu. 

Map security 
The ALA Map and Geography Round Table 
(MAGERT) Task Force on Library Security 
for Cartographic Resources has distributed a 
draft of Map Collection Security Guidelines. 
It covers the reasons for improving security, 
the nature of map collections, facilities, staff 
members, readers, policies and procedures, 
and administering a security plan. It also lists 
useful Web sites and publications. 

The draft is available free­of­charge at www. 
ala.org/ala/magert/MapSecurityGuidelines2007. 
pdf. 

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www.nedcc.org/education/workshops/soda
mailto:jane_hedberg@harvard.edu
www.archives.gov/preservation
mailto:richard.schneider@nara